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A new animation about consumption, climate change and wellbeing by PIRC, George Monbiot and Leo Murray. For more info, see: http://carbonomissions.org.uk
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Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding...
Pete Dolack
Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.
Naomi Klein
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Marty Kaplan
'8 days @ COP21' is the work of filmmaker Emilio Mula travelling to Paris with Rob Hopkins. It captures those days last December when the climate negotiations took place in Paris, and the experiences of some of the Transitioners who were there.
This vibrant animation from The Gaia Foundation and animator Ben Pearce takes us on two very different journeys through the water cycle. One shows the life-giving nature of water for everything from forests to frogs. The other reveals the ways in which mining is damaging the...
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Miami Beach could be underwater this century. The sea level around the tourist paradise has risen steadily in recent decades and flooding in the streets has become more frequent and severe. Most of the city sits just four to five feet above sea level, and on a foundation of...
8 min
The SBS team activates consciousness at festivals around South Africa - including Rocking the Daises, We Love Summer & Up the Creek. The network aims to inspire ACTION in environmental and social issues within South Africa. One of the campaigns - "dont be a fool, carpool!"...
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'For years, communities on the front lines have led that struggle, and this May we can join them.'
Nika Knight
The Rhineland region of Germany has more CO2 pollution than any part of Europe due to its many coal mines. That's why climate activists organized the largest protest against coal production that Germany has ever seen.
To find out why we are still using such harmful energy...
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The so-called “Heathrow 13” Plane Stupid climate activists have been given suspended prison sentences for trespassing on the airport’s runway. The case – and the decision of the judge to hand down custodial sentences at all, even if they were suspended – illustrates the way...
Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty
On Wednesday, 24th February, thirteen individuals who blockaded a runway to protest against expanding Heathrow airport are likely to be sent to prison, which would make them the first climate activists to receive a prison sentence in the UK.
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Goood morning slaves! This week we bring you, "White Canada has a Black History" In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new year. Also street battles in Athens, where anarchists and...
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Video of Performance Premiere at Berliner Festspiele, July 4th 2016.
68 min
Sculptor Jason diCaires Taylor creates underwater botanical gardens made of inert stone not only for our viewing pleasure but to help rebuild our dying coral reefs.
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Green Film Fest invites you to join us for this special event to meet The Yes Men (Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum) and see their latest film The Yes Men Are Revolting.
Doublespeak highlights the contradictory actions of President Obama and the British Prime Minister, David Cameron when it comes to addressing the urgent threat of climate change.
The film uses archive footage from speeches and news reports to paint a picture of how...
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Trailer for SUV TAGGERS, an award-winning, festival favorite short film (4:25). Two 'bad boy' environmentalists with a sense of humor place embarrassing but truthful bumper stickers on highly polluting, dangerous SUVS in the malls of California. A great discussion starter for...
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Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order
Bill McKibben
"The next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far."
Lauren McCauley
Activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures, a look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris.
20 min
'War Horse' author Michael Morpurgo and actors Jeremy Irons and Maxine Peake have joined forces to make a powerful new 5 minute film especially for you. Please watch and share.
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As people around the world march against the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Sierra Club's Ilana Solomon breaks down how the trade agreement will affect the fight against climate change.
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Wow, the price of oil is still low as hell. Oil company earnings are terrible. Consumer prices at the pump are super cheap. Oh, that remind me, you know what we could use right now?
Hamilton Nolan
Kerstin woke up every day before the sun came up.
Waiting for the dawn near some rocks, she puts gloves
and walked the same stretch of beach picking up garbage.
After an hour, she cleaned the 200 meters of beach.
He ended sad and frustrated to see such indifference of human...
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Plane Stupid’s trespass was a red flag to politicians: to claim you can have a booming aviation-based economy and cut emissions is a cowardly deception
Tim Sanderson
Scientists have been warning about Arctic methane for many years. They've not been listened to, and now it's to late. We are experiencing the beginning of a runaway greenhouse effect. It will result in the extinction of 80% of all life on Earth by 2030, including humans.
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Sir David Attenborough tells George Monbiot that the British public is better informed about the environment than ever before, in part thanks to television. He discusses his new programme on the titanosaur – a subset of dinosaurs that can reach 37m in length. He also talks...
5 min
This 11 minute video manages to be informative, satirical, and poetic as it covers serious issues that affect all of humanity. It offers simple solutions to government and corporate involvement in unconstitutionally drugging the American people via the air we breathe and the...
11 min
Decade Zero #1 is the first of a series of short fictional documentary films that blend utopia and apocalypse, the present and the future, the real and the imagined.
3 min
Time To Cycle was an organised mass cycle ride from London to Paris in December 2015. The plan was to arrive in Paris for the end of the climate talks, COP21. The aim was to do this sustainably and to connect a variety of people along the way, thus uniting people, sharing...
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The oil industry is a powerhouse with control over land, resources, politics and more. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin uncovers big oil's strong-arm reach--its growth, its crimes, its power and its impunity.
29 min
Are you willing to accept the challenge?
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Why are mangroves so important? How are they under threat? And what can we do to help protect them? This short video sets out to answer those questions, using photographs from all around the tropics, encouraging participation and to help spread awareness of the mangrove forest.
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An international scientific panel believes that the Earth has entered a new geological age. The team, which has been tasked with defining the so-called Anthropocene, says humanity's impacts on Earth will be visible in sediments and rocks millions of years into the future. The...
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Will anyone listen? I doubt it. 😢
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Part 2 of the 'Burnaby Mountain Resistance: How It Went Down' documentary series.
10 min
On December 4th 2015, Enbridge's began pumping tar sands crude on its 40 year old line 9 pipeline. On the same day, 22 year old Rachel Thevenard, began an 800 km run, through the route of the pipeline, to bring awareness, about the dangers of Line 9.
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The U.S. suffered its fair share of tumultuous weather conditions this year, as did many other parts of the world.
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Methane gas continues spewing, unchecked, into the air over southern California from a fractured well to an underground storage site — at such an alarming rate that low-flying planes have necessarily been diverted by the FAA, lest internal combustion engines meet highly...
Claire Bernish
The energy and the imagination on display in Paris on D12 was breathtaking. This is our hommage to the organizers and all the people who went, as well as our way of sharing the experience with those who couldn't come. This is a movement on the rise.
5 min
The greatest challenges of our time is to end unjust distribution in the world and to fight climate change.
What is stopping us? And what can YOU do to make a difference?
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This we bring you a recap of the COP21 climate clusterfuck in Paris, with Jim Hansen's reaction to the historic non-agreement and 350.org's condemnation of comrades who defied the protest ban. Over in Greece we look at the yearly riots that commemorate the police murder of...
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Watch a short recap of the breathtaking art projection at the #Vatican, on St. Peter's Basilica.
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The #COP21 climate agreement may have been made, but the Marshall Islands' existence is still being threatened by climate change. Governments agreed to keep the rise in temperatures below 3.6° Fahrenheit pre-industrial levels, which is .9° off of what the Marshall Islands...
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Set in the sweltering global warming heat on downtown Toronto, WAYS TO WATER is a dramatic short film that explores the metaphysics of water and human relationships - drawing heavily from the research of Dr. Masaru Emoto.
Emoto believed water to hold a memory, and conducted...
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D12 in Paris. This is just the beginning, and a beautiful beginning it was. Watch:
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I'm in Paris now, preparing to speak tonight about climate change. It is a parallel venue, not mainstream, called Place 2 B, but even here I am afraid my message is going to be controversial. You see, I think there are deep problems with the standard climate change narrative...
Charles Eisenstein
One of the most overlooked and scary facts surrounding the issue of climate change and environmental destruction lies under the sea... Our oceans are being destroyed and overfished in a way that is SERIOUSLY alarming to say the least.
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Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a "clean and green" source of electricity by international financial institutions, national governments and other actors. They greatly benefit from instruments meant to address climate change, including carbon credits under...
7 min
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the 'living forest', where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris...
9 min
We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil
Rebecca Solnit
COP21, or the more technocratic sounding twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) if you prefer, is manifestly not about the...
Wakan Tanka, meaning in the First Nation Lakota Sioux language 'Great Spirit' is a powerful documentary that interweaves the voices of respected global elders with a captivating fictional story, to engage youth on stewardship of our shared planet Earth.
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The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and...
Chris Hedges
Joshua Allen Harris en las calles de NY - Fight Global Warming
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Traditionally the climate talks have been a lot of talk and very little action... We sat down with world renowned environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva to discuss what she thinks, you'll be surprised what that is...
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"Brice Royer had stomach cancer. A mother who was living in a shelter offered to help him cook. He turned her down and instead, surprised her with a huge gift. Now he's spreading even more kindness." - CBC News.
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Anima Rising visited 20+ intentional communities, eco-villages, and small co-operative farms on America's East Coast, learning about sustainability, community, and ways of thinking and living differently. In this clip, Brad talks about foraging, capitalism, fossil fuels...
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While business can affect society negatively with extreme faults to the enviroment and unfair inequalities, it also can be the best way to improve the world : everyday social entrepreneurs change the world thanks to business and lead us to ask ourselves : what if you could...
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As world leaders gather in Paris for the climate-change summit, smog has blanketed an area of China the size of Spain, raising the pollution alert to "orange" for the first time this year.
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The activist part of me is pissed off at the French government for banning the protest marches that planned to target the UN Climate Change conference (known as the COP21) in Paris this December. It would have been amazing to see thousands of people taking to the streets...
Nicholas Beuret
How ordinary people are mobilising to disrupt the fossil fuel industry and redirecting investment.
25 min
"2015 - Year of the Firestorm" is a montage of this scorchingly hellish year. Wildfires, heatwaves, and other environmental catastrophes, placed alongside Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire".
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Demonstrations are prohibited so protestors hold hands along Boulvard Voltaire. A video by Michael Chanan.
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In the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix, protagonist Neo is offered two choices: Take the blue pill and return to an illusion or take the red pill and see ‘just how deep the rabbit hole goes’. You are offered the same choice every day, though the fantasies of Lewis...
Climate change music video: Cool polar bears and penguins wanting to stay 'cool'. High time to take things very very seriously, but that does not mean humor cannot be used to do so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxElxcjntE (recorded using only solar energy).
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This week we bring you black and brown power worldwide as peeps from Manila to Chicago fight the powers that be. In the Philippines, anti-capitalist warriors told APEC leaders to pack up and get the fuck out of dodge, while comrades in Minneapolis took a page from the...
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In the wake of Monday night’s direct attack on #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in Minneapolis at a protest against the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark, I feel compelled to share some thoughts.
Annie Leonard
A short trailer for our upcoming films on climate change in the build up to the Paris COP 21 talks and protests. Use HD.
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For months, forest fires raged across Indonesia bringing the world's attention to the country's devastating forest destruction. Both people and orang-utans were endangered as the fires raged and a thick, choking haze swept across Southeast Asia.
These forest fires were a...
Danielle Boobyer
Southern US forests are being chopped down and burned to generate electricity in Europe. You can help! Send an SOS to Save Our Southern forests.
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"As the Paris climate talks take the global stage, it’s time to draw attention to the military elephant in our room and demand that adaptation to climate change is led by principles of human rights and solidarity, rather than militarism and corporate profits."
Nick Buxton
Complex societies require complex politics, which again require a highly educated public. We have neither. We have simpleton politicians, half of which claim to hate government, and a corporate media news circus that breaks everything down to the lowest common denominator.
John Jordan writes on the climate justice movement's call for mass disobedience in Paris on 12 December, and beyond
John Jordan
Inspired by a contest for Current TV called 60 sec.to save the Environment.
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Climate change continues to have a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable communities around the globe, including migrants and communities of color -- people who are typically marginalized in our society. CultureStrike, in collaboration withJustseeds Artists’...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama killed a Canadian energy giant's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring the proposed project wouldn't serve U.S. national interests and would have undercut America's global leadership on climate change. The...
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MadagaSCARS is a poignant five minute flash animation created by Camille Wainer (www.camillewainer.com) in collaboration with the Lemur Conservation Foundation (www.lemurreserve.org) that captures the urgent environmental and social issues that threaten the future of wildlife...
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Massive forest fires have engulfed Indonesia for several months, and produce more daily CO2 emissions than
Jeff Conant
Day of the Dead sponsored by... BP and the Mexican Government. Did the British Museum have an irony bypass?
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Coal ash is the toxic waste created by coal-fired power plants and it is polluting communities all across America. This is the story of one of those places, La Belle, PA.
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The UN climate talks in Paris (COP21) are right around the corner.
'The Paris moment will be defined not by what happens in the negotiating halls, but in the streets of Paris and around the world.'
Deirdre Fulton
Bolivia's national contribution to the COP 21 describes capitalism as "a system of death" that has to be destroyed to protect humanity and Mother Earth. EurActiv France reports.
Cécile Barbière translated by Samuel White
The Environmental Litmus Test is a short film exploring some of the key issues relating to the UN Climate meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). It is a passionate plea for each and every one of us to get involved, The Environmental Litmus Test is a clarion call to action.
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Alex Scrivener explores why excessive optimism in the run up to the coming summit in Paris ignores the voices of those most affected by climate change
Alex Scrivener
Having done nothing to seriously address the causes of over population, co2 emissions, as well as other planet destroying factors. We have passed the point of no return.
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The negotiations should strongly consider how climate change affects the migrant crisis, argues New Internationalist Digital Editor Chris Spannos.
The recent images from Europe and the Middle East of people fleeing war and persecution has shocked the world in both horror...
6 min
This film is about the impact of fracking on communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Vera Scroggins is a filmmaker who documents the impacts of fracking on her local community in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Stout is Professor of Biology at Wheeling...
13 min
Students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the administration area of the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart from 1:30pm on Wednesday the 14th of October, 2015. They are refusing to leave until the University commits to divesting from the fossil fuel industry before...
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Fermi's Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse are among the subjects discussed in this feature length documentary on the environmental crisis. Interviewees include Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Derrick Jensen, Peter D. Ward, Jill Stein, Bill Patzert, Guy McPherson...
84 min
On the weekend, the world’s finance ministers met in Lima, Peru, to decide where they’re going to get the money for the climate response. The world’s richest countries have promised to raise $100bn to help poorer countries deal with climate change.
Robin
Devamrita Swami, a Yale graduate and world travelling monk, explains why he believes we need to establish a wisdom society, a society permeated with a spiritual culture, in order to solve humanity's problems.
3 min
"Not Without Us" follows seven multi-generational, grassroots activists from around the world as they head to Paris this December 2015 for the 21st session of United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the COP 21.
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The Climate Games are where action-adventure meets actual change. Anyone can play this real-time, real-world game and turn Paris and the world into a giant, direct action playing field for climate justice. We have everything to play for – but time is running out. #ClimateGames
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American scholar and Theravada monk Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi might not receive the same high-profile press coverage as the Roman Catholic Church’s charismatic standard-bearer Pope Francis, but it is becoming evident to Buddhism watchers and commentators that his message is...
Raymond Lam
We are in the process of burning ourselves and many of the beings on Earth right out of existence. Overwhelming. Unbelievable. Wildly inconvenient. Weirdly difficult to take in. But true. We are.
David Goldstein
Director Ray Kocur leads you through a thorough (and accessible) study of current climate change research, speaking with a dozen of Canada's foremost climate scientists as well as historians and civil rights activists to gain perspectives on the past, present and future of...
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'People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,' says film's director Avi Lewis
Jon Queally